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Hypoglycemic episodes but not quite—what questions can I ask? I’m 23F, AFAB I have atypical Cystic Fibrosis, I’m pancreatic sufficient, and no CFRD. for the past 2-3 years I’ve been having episodes that seem to mimic postprandial hypoglycemia but my levels are always above 70. I’ve had a few fasting readings that are 67-69 but I don’t have any symptoms then. The symptoms start within an hour or so of eating and my levels will be 70-80 but get to 100ish 3-4 hours after eating, which does make me nervous that something insulin related is going on. My blood pressure is normal but tends to be on the low side as well.
The episodes mostly correspond with the 7-12 days before my period but it’s not uncommon for them to happen outside of that range. The symptoms are: - high heart rate (130-150) even if at rest (resting heart rate when I’m not having an episode is 60-70 range - shaking - sweating - confusion (including slurring/stammering and switching words around) - weird tingly rising feeling inside - mouth tastes like sand/ash regardless of food or drink - pallor - certain edges blur in my vision; like where the walls meet the ceiling or floors - more frequent urination with lower output - chills
There are a few things that don’t happen every time I have an episode but have happened more than once: - Pain behind eyes - intense headache that disappears quickly
I’ve tried adjusting my diet in every way I can think of (and GI and nutrition have suggested) and nothing really seems to have an impact. Drinking sugar during/after an episode does help a bit but not by much.
My CF team seems to kind of be at a loss. All of my bloodwork is normal, weight and PFTs are fine. They’re sending me to a gynecologist because of how the episodes tend to correspond with my period. I am also seeing my PCP to get my heart checked soon.
Meds: Bupropion 450 (had been on this for about 2 years before any of these symptoms started) Levalbuterol (10+ years) Trikafta (3 years ish) Mirena iud, placed fall 2019
Vitamins Women’s one a day 2000 iu d3
Other diagnoses: PTSD/CPTSD (incest/rape trauma related, not sure how relevant that it is but I’m trying to be more detailed than not ) Major depression General anxiety Insomnia (PTSD related)
Psych meds I’ve tried a while ago but didn’t help: - Zoloft (brain fog was way worse) - lexapro (would not stay in my system, to put it politely) - latuda (didn’t do anything)
I edited my post on cysticfibrosis after someone recommended I post here,so this part isn’t over there but —one of the things that’s getting truly untenable for me is brain fog/confusion. Since fall 2020 I’ve struggled a lot with brain fog and since it started with PTSD related events my doctors and I have been assuming it to be a mental health thing but I’m not that sure anymore.
The confusion is definitely worse during the episodes I described (and affects stuff like where I walk around and what I put down where, for example, putting my phone in a fridge or not being able to find my car) But day to day—I’m forgetting words and sentences almost immediately after thinking them. My mental health has improved a lot on Wellbutrin but I can’t tell if it’s improved the brain fog at all or just improved the other symptoms like low energy and the can’t get out of bed heaviness.
My major involves a lot of writing and the same assignments that would take me a few several hour sessions, if that, I haven’t been able to complete. I’ve spent 12 hours on essays (with only meal breaks and things like that) with about a paragraph to show for it — but what I can get out never quite matches what I’m thinking. I almost constantly have the feeling of having a word on the tip of my tongue, especially when trying to write. The things I think of seem to float away before I can keep them in my head long enough to write them down. I was supposed to graduate 3 years ago and I’ve been one full time semester’s worth of classes for these past three years because I just can’t get it done. The majority of my depression symptoms that remain have to do with the stress and feelings behind not having finished school despite being so close. On the whole though, my mental health is in the best place it’s been in pretty much my entire life And the other symptoms have improved drastically.
Last note on the day to day brain fog/confusion: I don’t switch words around when I’m not having an episode—but I have been noticing that 0-5 times a day (I can’t say for sure that it happens daily without fail but it definitely happens several times a week) that I do slur sometimes when talking? The beginnings and ends of words will just sort of smush together . This is a relatively recent development (in the last 8 months maybe?) don’t know if that’s normal person stuttering kind of thing but combined with the writing stuff it irks me more than it normally would)
I feel like a lot of these symptoms could be literally anything so I don’t know how to go about narrowing it down.
I have a check up appointment soon and I wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions for other questions or specific testing requests that I can ask my doctors for to help figure this out.
Thank you!

I just finished teaching my first large (80-person) class. For references, I'm in a private R1, STEM; the class was on the softer side of STEM.
It was a version of a class I've taught before that was 40 students that was turned into a "general education" requirement. It was stressful, but finally a positive experience. Here are my words of wisdom.

1. When you double the class, you double the number of problems. You need very clear, explicit boundaries for assignments, lateness, policy, etc. Having a boilerplate e-mail that is firm but polite saves a lot of emotional energy. e.g., "I'm sorry to hear that you're struggling right now. Per syllabus, [THE ANSWER THEY DON'T WANT]."
2. Have a separate e-mail folder for student e-mails and move everything there. Wait a day before replying to any student e-mail.
3. Engagement is much harder to manage. If the students need to do X to learn, X has to have a grade attached. Intrinsic motivation can't be sustained when students can't connect with you one-on-one.
4. Low engagement means more procrastination; for big assignments, have at least one prior (graded) stage that might be, e.g., a plan of work. This can be gently graded (e.g., "if you submit a good faith attempt, you get at least a B") — it's just to reality-check students about what they have to do.
5. Detailed rubrics for all assignments are crucial. You can't rely on explaining a requirement in class.
6. Group work works really well, but the students have to choose their own groups for this to work effectively.
7. You will probably need to be a harsher grader (unfortunately) on the key assignments — you will get far more sub-standard work, and your rubrics need to include the various conditions for receiving a C, D, and F on any piece of work. (I messed this up, and had conditions for A, B, and F... did not expect stuff that was above F, but well below B.)
8. Do not have any assignment where failing to turn it in means a B-level student will fail the class. (This was my main source of pain — I ended up accepting late assignments on the final because I didn't want to fail students.)

Would love to hear thoughts from others!

This has been on my mind for the past few years and this is as condensed as I could make it and I am still leaving out a lot of information, I'm very autistic so bear with me..
I'm 20 years old and have been in a relationship for over 3 and a half years, but have had odd relations to sexuality since I can remember. I can't manage to fully speak up about it in therapy and theres only so much my high libido/hyprsexual partner can help me with, when it comes to figuring out my own, situation. So any input is very welcome and needed.
(FYI I am transgender born female, same as my partner. I identify a little more ambiguously but for all intents and purposes I'm a guy to the general public and have transitioned with hormones. But my boyfriend is, just a guy)
I read about asexuality a lot, and discuss it a fair amount with my boyfriend. He is super understanding about it and has genuine curiosity about the subject which is comforting and all well. But for awhile, it has definetly put a strain on our sex life and romantic relationship given that, I can't tell if I'm ace or not. My partner has what I consider a super high libido (and sexual trauma like me but in the complete opposite direction lol!..) but maybe it's just normal and I think it's high compared to mine. MY libido is elusive to say the least.
Reading about asexuality I've learned that ace people can have sex, which is comforting to know since I do indeed have sex with my partner. I've only recently gotten out of the phase of thinking there is something wrong with me, and trying to fix my low libido because it's "broken". That doesn't sit right with me though. I could be okay just thinking of myself as someone who just doesn't want sex AS much as your average person. But that doesn't fully encapsulate how I feel either. Whenever I describe sex or describe my feelings about it, my boyfriend doesn't understand at all. And vice versa, whenever he talks about his strong desire to have sex with me, I can honestly get uncomfortable, and sometimes I even laugh a little because I just genuinely don't get it or I think he is joking somehow.
For one, I don't really ever initiate sex because I don't think about it much. I've never felt like I needed to have sex so badly. If we have a chance to have sex but it doesn't end up working out, I don't get sad about it. At least not in the same way he does, or the way I see it portrayed in other people. I'm pretty much incapable of going out of my way, to have sex. One time I said I feel like I could never have sex again and my life wouldn't be different. It made him kind of upset at first and I felt bad, but he eventually understood what I meant. The emotional side of sex is important to me, and enjoyable. It's a work out too, and I love being physically active, it makes me happy. I also view sex as a fun activity and experience, and when we laugh during sex or it feels like we're just hanging out, that feels special to me and I see how it benefits our realtionship, It's not like I need that to stop or something...
But... Every time people talk about desire, I genuinely have no idea what that truely means. This real physical urge, and need, for sex. To want it so badly. I barely believe that it's real. One thing that makes me believe I could be ace is how I experience arousal or sexual stuff just on a personal level. Honesty time. I realized recently that whenever I fantasize about sex, through out my whole life, I never think about genitals, or the part that seperates sex from simply kissing or being affectionate/intimate/sensual. And it's hard to connect the situation to me, and MY own body. If I ever do, I start to feel gross in a way, and I can't think about it for long. Most of the time when I'm "horny" or whatever, once it actually turns into sex. It isn't, what I was looking for. Essentially, sex doesn't turn me on. It makes me wonder if I understand what being turned on really is.
It's almost a joke between my boyfriend and I that it is a real complicated puzzle to "turn me on", and it absolutely is. The circumstances for me to be enthusiastic about sex are slim and peculiar, nearly impossible. It's confusing though because we have had some real intense, good times. Typically though... I do not partake in orgasm during sex, and if I do, I do it myself. I get enjoyment out of serving my partner. It used to make me really sad in the beginning of our relationship, I felt left out, or like he didn't enjoy doing things for me, or that it was too hard to make me finish since I take longer. I've come a long way with it though. For more clarification and even more complicated-ness. I do have sexual trauma from my youth where I was forced to do certain things to someone else. It has been really hard to navigate, and asexuality aside, it is it's own monolith to conquer. This whole aspect of being queer and experiencing queer sexual assault, I wonder how much of it just seems like it could be asexuality. My avoidance of being touched or feeling gross about sex, there is a part of it that is definitely because of my trauma, and also being raised in a VERY sexist and "women are sex objects !!" household. But thats a whole other topic I won't get into here. Anyway.
I know that asexuality is a spectrum, and it seems like ace people can experience some forms of sensualness or even enjoy masturbating. Which I kind of do? I think? It honestly isn't super exciting and usually is very short and, not a deep experience or something I enjoy thoroughly. Often it can make me feel even worse! I have two opposing sides, where when it comes to sex, I can be repulsed sometimes. Or just strongly not want to. Some times my boyfriend will tell me how much he wants me in a sexual way and he'll ask me what I want, and, trying to describe how I feel leads to crying a fair amount of the time, because I just don't know what to say. There are a lot of parts of sex that I find gross or just. Why would you want it. The sensory part is a whole other story too. On the other hand, I have other very intense and strong feelings sometimes. But it doesn't feel like desire, it doesn't even feel like sex sometimes. When I think I'm fantasizing about sex, I think about a situation for a looong time, and every detail that would lead UP to sex, but, once it gets to the sex, I don't, think about that part. It has more to do with, the setting. The situation, the colors involved, smells. And not sexy smells or sexy colors, not even sexy situations! I usually just think about being outside, or in a room that has furniture that I like, the colors in the sky, and being held really tight and prolonged eye contact. That's what turns me on, not the sex. Thinking about, things like this in my head feels good, but it isn't quite arousal. It's rare I'll put in effort to make it reality. Even if the situation does come along, I don't feel like I need to escalate it to sex, in order to, get off I guess? Or enjoy it? I enjoy everything that leads up to sex, vastly more.
The most ravenous I ever got over my boyfriend was the one time he drank coffee and I could taste it on his lips. I am obsessed with coffee and, he can't drink it cus it maks him tired, so it was a novel experience. But god it sent me into a frenzy, but once it had to turn into more than kissing or clawing at eachother, it's like how turned on I was didn't count. I didn't want it to go further. I could've just done that for awhile and then stopped and I'd be good. The fact that I felt the way I did actually sent me into a breakdown of sorts and he had to pull me out of it. I didn't understand how I felt and I really didn't want to have sex even though we had great chemistry in that moment. Even though I really thought I wanted to and it felt like being turned on, it just didn't add up. ??? It's like the more "turned on" I am, the less actual sex seems appealing.
During sex, and part of why I am only a giver, is because it's really hard for me to even be turned on by touch. I've never had an orgasm so good where I thought oh I MUST do that again. ?!!?! Even if my body physically reacts, which it's hard for that to happen, it can make me feel gross. I have rarely had sex where I feel like I am just enjoying how my body feels. Some times I can get aroused physically and that's enough but I always have to think about something else. It is a lot of work, and it can lead to me becoming extremly upset and uncomfortable. My body has nothing to do with it. Doing things for my partner is a different story, it's for him and it's more than sex to me. It is fun and takes strength and brain power. It's awesome. And I don't necessarily have to be horny or aroused myself to be present emotionally. I can still have strong feelings and want to do certain stuff.
When it comes to my boyfriend, I am attracted to him, for sure. And my relationship to him is so vulnerable and intimate that I feel comfortable to partake in sex and stuff. But last night he asked me if I'm sexually attracted to him, and I felt so stupid and guilty that I didn't know how to answer. I was just blank and silent. I think he is hot, handsome, we have sex, and I enjoy making him feel good in that way, why couldn't I answer? It isn't a yes or no question to me. It seemed like it should be a yes or no question. Am I ace?
TL;DR: sex doesn't turn me on and I rarely want to have sex and I don't like being touched during sex, but I have intense feelings but they just don't feel quite sexual and I dont have a need to act on them and even if the specific situation presents itself i usually dont want to do it anymore, but having sex for my boyfriend under very specific circumstances can be cool and good, I just dont want any for myself and i cant attach myself to the situation fully, but being present emotionally with my parter, again, cool. its just really hard to do that, while having sex often. is this a form of asexuality?

I'm proud to say that I did not vote for NDA alliance in AP elections held on May 13th. Especially considering that this very alliance did not fulfil their poll promises during 2014 and despite being in a position of power to grant Special Category status to AP, they backstabbed AP people of their state's promised right. Such self-centric persons should not be in any form of politics in my opinion. Although unplanned, as the life would have it, I had to travel from the USA to India which happened to be just in time for the elections poll date. And had to sit as a relieving poll agent on the day of elections (main agent had to leave coz of some family emergency). Glad that I was crucial in helping with poll proceedings and our booth had one of the smoothest polls over the past couple decades. Voter turn out was 90.5%. (1000+ votes) Even in Jagan wave during 2019, my booth vote share was 40YCP:60TDP split. Would be interesting to see how the voters judge this time around. As one village openly commented (when approached with poll management tactics) that they would have to give donations to YCP for what this govt has done for them and was not interested in taking any 'notes'. Fun fact: INC poll agent voted for NDA (in his own words). Made me realize that INC in AP is indeed playing to the tunes of a person with old wily cunning fox character. It's a shame that some are stopping to such low levels. Proud FAN of YS Jagan's character marked with grit and perseverance. Also note that I'm not going to discuss about who is going to win or number of seats. It's irrelevant now, similar to post examinations thinking about marks/ rank or supplies. But like a meritorious student, Jagan is making leisure travel plans. Others are going to places like Varanasi, temples and religious places praying that they don't want to sit for supplies.

I’ve struggled with depression from a very early age, and this is not the first time my academics have suffered but this is the worst it’s gotten. I failed my first semester as a freshman, took a gap semester and had a job/worked on myself. This was the first time I really understood my depression and how it effected my day to day life, and went on medication for it for the first time. I had a decent year at a community college and simultaneously held down a job where I was a manager, and things were looking up for a while. I managed to transfer into a 4 year school at the very last minute of summer, and within 3 weeks of the semester starting I was able to secure housing and classes.
This year was horrendous to say the least. I really don’t even know how I managed to fail, as most of my courses were just entry level and general requirement shit. I made some great friends up here, and overall had a pretty strong support system. I had a shit gpa last semester which placed me on academic warning, and this semester I was unable to get my grades high enough to get myself off of warning. Pending the end of the semester I’m expecting an email notifying me of my dismissal from the school, and if my appeal is denied I’m not going to continue living. I’ve been depressed for so long that I’m not even sad about the prospect of losing everything I’ve worked towards over the past few years, I’m simply apathetic to the whole thing.
I am still making strides to fix this issue, but I honestly have no idea how my chances of fixing this will be. Im working with my advisor to prepare for the appeal, and I’ve reached out to my doctor to modify my medication to help me further with my rising depression and suicidal thoughts. At this point, im hoping the university recognizes the mental health struggles I’ve been facing and sees that I’ve made genuine strides towards recovering and have a genuine chance at improving my academics, which will grant me one semester to fix my progress. The way I look at it, if my appeal is successful then I’ll already be on the right track in terms of finding better medication and getting my life right. If not, at least I tried my best one last time.
Although many might tell me to continue regardless of this appeal, my mind is already set. I couldn’t face my family and friends if I fail again, especially my parents. They’ve already helped me the first time I failed, and after making so much progress I can’t bear to tell them that I’ve fallen back to square one. They’ve supported me through the worst of my mental health struggles, and in their minds I’ve already beaten the worst of it. I’ve been wearing my strong face for this entire year, and it kills me to know that they’re so happy with how far I’ve come knowing I’ve hit rock bottom again. That’s the worst fucking part of mental health problems, is knowing that the people you love suffer watching you at your lows.
Got off track and vented for a while, but Tldr if my dismissal from university is final I will not continue living.

I primarily use closed-back headphones (M50x) because I travel and often work in public spaces where I don't want everyone hearing what I'm listening to. The other day I tried my friend's DT900 Pro Xs and I was very surprised with how little sound they leaked at low volume. I was also a big fan of how much of my surroundings I could hear with them on. I am considering upgrading to a pair of open-backs and I want to know if this level of sound leakage is standard for open-back headphones or if certain models leak more/less.

I know I was stressed for a while and then I got glutened (celiac) but that was over 2 months ago. Everything I’ve done before to correct my LPR, and the burning in my stomach has not worked. I just want to find the root cause but I’m running out of time and money.

1. Not h pylori
2. Not candida
3. No more gluten in me
4. B12 levels are incredible
5. Iron/hemoglobin looking good
6. Vitamin D “normal” at 32 but holistically that’s still low I guess. Possible cause of the weakened LES?
7. Not on any PPI’s.

I know I have low acid from the bravo test and digestive enzymes have helped me to stop throwing everything up which is GREAT. But still feeling air hungry, and burning in the stomach no matter what I eat. I’ve lost over 20 pounds in 2 months.
If anyone has any ideas what the root cause may be or something I’m missing, please feel free to share.

I am wondering if anyone here has had experience with being vegan and having a baby. My baby is almost 8 months old and still drinks lots of breastmilk and also eat solids. I’ve been contemplating trying veganism by probably starting off by giving myself a goal like let’s say an eight week goal of eating vegan only and then reassess where I want to go from there. I feel like if I jump in 100% it will probably result in higher chances of failure rate versus giving myself a timeframe to obtain a goal.
Anyway, I am wondering if because I am breastfeeding does it affect the baby at all and also my own nutrient levels. Last time my blood was tested while I was pregnant I was slightly low on iron, but nothing concerning. I do take prenatal still to help. But if anyone else has any positive or negative experiences with breastfeeding and being vegan or any tips to share please let me know!
Also, what do you guys think about the baby being on a vegan diet also? I feel like in today’s society, if I told anybody my baby is vegan, they would look at me like I have five eyeballs. Is veganism safe for babies? or should I just try to do my best with him and supplement with some animal products here and there? He mostly eats what I eat, and as it is, I don’t eat a ton of animal products anyway, so I don’t think it would be a huge transition, but I’m still a bit nervous about it. I feel like I don’t want to make him lactose intolerant because if he grows up and chooses not to be vegan, I want him to have that choice. Please let me know your thoughts. Please do not judge me, I am really new to this and want to give this lifestyle a shot.

Hi all, I am getting consistently strange blood test results over a few years, and my doctor doesn’t seem to know why or have concern. But now that my mother has been diagnosed with hemochromatosis with some severe iron deposits in organs, I’m a bit worried, and wondering if it could somehow be related.
My issue is, I have LOW ferritin and elevated iron levels. I’m wondering if anyone has heard of this or have any idea what it could mean?
I am also currently pregnant, but had this even before pregnancy.

I've been working abroad without my companies permission for 9 months now, living in SEA hopping countries every 3 months or so (or whenever the tourist visa expired). Yesterday out of the blue I get an email from IT basically saying they know what's going on and I've got a formal HR meeting coming up.
It's a billion dollar US fortune 500 company in the Finance industry, I'm a low level software engineer dealing with back end code and no customer data. I've only ever had production access to real live servers 3 times (no db access IIRC). I've performed well, done all my work and thought I could outsmart the system..
I'm now terrified that they could incur massive fines for them not having a business entity in those countries and I'm not only going to get fired, but also sued to levels where I'm financially ruined..
In short I'm panicking quite a lot and as a hail mary thought I'd ask what the likelihood of me getting sued is and if so.. how much I'm potentially looking at? and what's the best way for me to act during this? Should I be totally up front and honest about the length of time and countries I've visited.
Edit: My employer is based in England, my address where I was pretending to work from is in Wales and I've been working there for over a year and a half.

Hi Everyone!
I was diagnosed with hashimotos 10 years ago and have always been relatively stable. Over the past year things have been awful with my TSH levels fluctuating from 23 to 15 to .05 to 40. It’s been such a rollercoaster of symptoms and thankfully things have been more stable over the past 2 months. In March my TSH was at .6 and now 6 weeks later it’s down to .5. I’m still having some symptoms, nervousness, low libido, etc. and I was wondering if you all think those symptoms could be related to my .5 level or if I am in the clear now or if I should try to get closer to 1TSH.

Heads up - I wrote a longer than anticipated into to this topic...if you want to skip the background and get to the meat, you can skip to the list toward the bottom!
Background:
My childhood was a pretty typical middle-class, suburban existence.
I went to public schools growing up. I went to an average state university. My dad passed while I was in college and my mom was a public school teacher so I was more or less on my own to figure life out after my dad passed.
I share that because cruising often and being able to afford to stay in suites is relatively new for us.
I'm an entrepreneur and when COVID started we were on the verge of bankruptcy, not just my business, but my personal finances as well.
I had quit my last corporate job in the tech industry 4 years earlier and hadn't taken a paycheck since. We were surviving on my wife's teacher's salary and the savings and retirement I'd built after a decade in the soulless troughs of corporate BS.
After 4 years of not paying myself while trying to raise two kids, a mortgage, and living the American dream we were at the end of our ropes financially.
I'd drained my retirement (I never touched my wife's incase something ever happened to me), drained our savings, and racked up $250k in credit card debt.
Just as COVID was beginning, I came home from the office one day, handed my wife a credit card, and looked her in the eyes holding back tears and told her, "there's $400 in this account before it's maxed out - buy all the groceries you can because I don't know when I'll have anymore money for us."
Faced with $250k in CC debt, if I couldn't turn things around we were going to going to have to claim bankruptcy so with nothing to lose, I cashed out our home equity as one final cash infusion into the business before closing shop and starting over financially.
With the money from that loan, I resolved to do three things:

1. I hired a business coach to figure out why despite growing revenue, we couldn't make consistent profits.
2. We're located in a rural community so we expanded into a much larger city 90 minutes from us...my hope here was that I didn't know how long the shutdown was going to last (it definitely hit us hard early in the pandemic), but by marketing to a larger area we'd hopefully be able to make enough money to survive.
3. I was going to finally begin paying myself after 4 years of not taking a paycheck and reinvesting everything into the business.

I've been extremely fortunate that this was a turning point in my business. In the 4 years since then we've grown by nearly 1,000% and we're now making a very healthy profit and I've built the business to where it runs without me (I work 8-12 hours/week on the business on high-level activities, primarily guiding my leadership team and handling the financials + some tech innovations periodically as I identify them). I've repaid all of our debt and I'm working on rebuilding our retirement while investing a percentage of the profits into building a new business (one that will be less employee intensive).
This is all relevant because this has put me in a place where we can afford to cruise often (6-8 weeks/year) + I have the luxury (privilege honestly) of not having to worry about PTO.
Side Note: For those of you who hate capitalists like me - my lowest paid employee last year made $50k (+ full benefits) in an area where the median income is only $33k...half of my team made $100k+. We're quite possibly the highest paying company in our region (definitely in our industry) and as a result have extremely low turnover and I'm able to hire the best of the best so we have an excellent culture.
So back to the main reason for this post - having the opportunity to cruise often, about 75% of the time in suites, I've noticed the folks we meet and interact with in the suites tend to fall in one of six categories:

1. The Status Cruiser: These are the folks we all see on social media and unfortunately on cruise ships whose entire identity is wrapped up in their loyalty status and their suite class. They are absolutely the main character and its of absolute importance to them that everybody know this. You can typically spot them from across the room before you even talk to them because they're dressed to the 9s and carry themselves in a way completely stereotypical of what you'd expect from somebody who truly believes their farts smell like roses.
2. The Retirees: There's a good amount of overlap between this persona and the Status Cruisers mentioned above, but they're not all like this. The ones who don't overlap with the previous group tend to be extremely friendly and I've had many great conversations with them learning about their life experiences and sharing the wisdom they've picked up over the years to help with on my own journey. They tend to stick to the recommended dress codes and are sometimes put off by people who don't share the same motivations for structure and etiquette.
3. The Bucket List Cruisers: These folks often save money for years, pinching pennies so they can afford what may very well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them sailing in a suite. They often want to squeeze as much value out of the suites as they can since they may never be in one again (I don't fault them for that...make the most of it!). They're often dressed to the 9s as well but sometimes appear less comfortable in the various social situations you find in the suite areas (i.e. grabbing a drink in a lounge, having a nice dinner in the suite restaurant, etc).
4. The YOLO Cruisers: I don't encounter these cruisers on every sailing, they're definitely more common during holiday sailings (i.e. Spring Break, Christmas, etc). These folks are living their best lives. The fellas are often wearing flip flops and neon tank tops and their wives/girlfriends in cut off jean shorts and a see-through cover-ups over their bikini tops. Fortunately they typically aren't over the top obnoxious, but they couldn't care less about any recommended dress codes or societal queues. They're there to have the time of their lives, everybody else be damned.
5. The DINKs: These couples are often from the LGBTQ+ community (not hating, just the reality), but not exclusively. They have good paying jobs and often are able to work remotely from the ship so they don't even need to use PTO. They typically keep to themselves and associate mostly with other DINKs. You can usually find them enjoying a drink in the suite lounges later in the evenings after a fun night out partying. One evening you may see them dressed to the 9s and the next they may be in beach attire - they march to the beat of their own drum but also don't really interrupt anybody's vacation (aside from maybe the folks in the first two categories who care more than they probably should about dress codes).
6. The Family Cruisers: There aren't many sailing in suites with kids, but the ones who do tend to have well-paying corporate jobs that they're not able to fully disconnect from (even on a cruise ship). They have good to great paying jobs but have limited vacation time so they prefer to pay a premium to make the most of their time off when they're able to get away. Often you'll see these parents responding to emails in-between parenting. You can sometimes catch them in the lounge grabbing a drinks in the evenings after their kids have gone to bed for the evening. We fall into this category with two kids under the age of 10.

I don't know if this is interesting to you guys but I was randomly thinking about it earlier and thought some of you may find it of interest.
What do you think? Did I leave any categories out? Do you disagree?
Random food for thought! Whatever category you fall into, and whatever type of cabin you happen to cruise in, happy sails everybody!

Hello,
The tomatoes are in full force for me here in Houston. I am growing 27 varieties this year, a mix of hybrids and heirlooms, mostly new to me. I wanted to share some preliminary thoughts. I didn't start them all at the same time so I haven't gotten to taste them all yet.
I am pruning my larger slicing tomatoes to a single leader.
So far I have tried, Margold - grown before, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye - Grown Before, Black Krim - Grown Before, Supersweet 100 - grown before, Cherry Brandywine - grown before, and I think the rest are new to me. Riesentraube, Burmese Sour, Purple Boy, Margaret Curtain, Brown Sugar, Prudens Purple, Pink Boar, Sunset Torch, Red Torch, Blue Cream Berry, Edox, Black Cherry
For the ones I have grown before Margold is producing very well. These plants make all sizes of tomato, some softball size and some more like a tennis ball, they are yellow with a beautiful red blush and are juicy while also being dense and meaty, low acid, floral/fruity, and absolutely delicious. I will always grow this tomato.
Pink Berkeley Tie dye is another favorite, to me it has the flavor of a brown/purple tomato while also having the acid I like in a tomato so it is a nice mix. My two plants have also been very prolific and one also died suddenly! Ha. This is my first year experimenting with growing some tomatoes directly in the ground and I guess it is more perilous! The rest of my tomatoes are in raised beds.
Black Krim - obviously great, we know it and love it, my plant got bacterial stem rot and is somehow still growing and producing/setting fruit. I know I should remove the plant but I haven't.
So now for Margaret Curtain, Carbon, and Purple Boy. To me these and Black Krim all taste more or less the same. I've only had one or two from each plant but don't notice any big difference and think growing one of these would probably be fine.
The Margaret curtain has set the most fruit and a lot of very big tomatoes, but like the margold, some are softball size, some tennis ball size, but I am very impressed with the level of production.
Carbon, poor production, good fruit set on first cluster and then pretty much done.
Purple Boy, absymal. This is a Hybrid and I am shocked by its poor performance. Even as a seedling it was a thin, wimpy, wispy and slow growing pathetic specimen that I wasn't sure would live. Not comparable at all to other hybrids. When the plant was about 3 1/2 feet tall I did accidentally break off the central leader and that slowed the growth but even at that point it had only set one fruit. It has since rebounded in growth with several flower clusters but it has yet to set another fruit. The tomato tasted good and like the other dark ones mentioned but absolutely piss poor vigor and fruit set.
Brown Sugar - nice fruit set and clusters of medium size tomatoes, they are mostly between the size of a clementine and a tennis ball. I have only tasted one, and maybe I didn't let it ripen enough but it was nothing special, not particularly sweet or flavorful.
Burmese Sour - I chose to grow these, perhaps incorrectly, thinking that my hot and humid climate would be similar to that of Burma. But who knows. This plant was the first to look diseased with black spots on the foliage, it is not particularly vigorous and stopped growing taller around the 3 1/2 foot mark. But! It has set a lot of fruit so it is kind of winning me over. Apparently these tomatoes are meant to be used in curries where you wouldn't want a sweet tomato. I tasted one raw and I liked it. It was very bright and refreshing, like a nice tomato taste with the acidity turned up. These are also very pretty with that classic heirloom shape like costoluto genovese.
Pink Boar - maybe I am missing something here but its just like a smaller version of pink berkeley tie dye. Probably won't grow again.
Prudens Purple - This is the standout new tomato so far. Good production/fruit set of very large fruits. I had a miserable experience with Pink Brandywine last year and I think this is probably the answer to that. When I first tasted it I was just like, this is what I want a tomato to taste like. This is the tomato you want to put on a burger. Meaty, juicy, not much gel, good acid and I guess this is what people mean when they say "old fashioned" tomato flavor. I will grow this again and probably every year unless something tops it.
Now for the cherries
Riesentraube - extremely slow/late to produce and not prolific at all. I've so far harvested two tomatoes and they taste pretty good but not worth the pathetic performance unless it really gets going later in the season.
Blue Cream Berry - Not for me at all. No acid, just sweet, no tomato flavor. These reminded me of the green doctors tomatoes I grew last year and did not like either. I am learning that I really need acid in a tomato and dont like them to be so sweet. I'm not growing sungolds this year for that reason (too sweet, they do have some acid). Last year my savory dishes were borderline too sweet/more desert like because of the sweetness of the sungolds and the green doctors. Blue cream berry is in that same category like sweet and bland and not tomatoey. Also a slow grower, slow producer, generally unhealthy seeming plant, it must know that i don't like it!.
Sunset Torch/Red Torch - these are hybrids, first time growing. These are quite large for a small cluster tomato, they are kind of like romas but half the size. They are very pretty and the sunset torch taste really good. They have kind of a mild flavor but it is a tomato flavor and they remind me of the margold kind of, like floral and fruity. I guess that is the yellow tomato taste. The red torch I think I haven't had one ripe enough yet but their taste hasn't wowed me yet. Both of these plants are have great vigor, they are like 3X the size of my riesentraube and blue cream berry. They have great fruit set and will grow again just because of how prolific they are.
Edox - hybrid. Good fruit set, vigor and production. Blah taste. These are red cherries and they have to be really really really dark red and ripe to have much flavor at all and when they do its like the expensive cherries on the vine in the grocery store. Probably won't grow again, just meh.
Black cherry - slow going and not much fruit set but it seems to be getting a little better now, the fruits I had were really good and tasted like carbon/black krim/margaret curtain etc. Will grow again, maybe two plants if the production doesn't improve.
Supersweet 100 - grown before, this is probably the gold standard to me of a red cherry. Prolific, productive, good tomato flavor, sweet and acidic. Not much else to say. To me it isn't knock your socks off out of this world good but it is definitely worth growing.
Cherry Brandywine - Determinate. These are probably the best tasting cherries I have grown, Similar flavor to the prudens purple. They are prolific and I love that they are determinate and you can harvest a lot all at once. Short plants with great tasting tomatoes and they are early to produce. Last year I grew one and wish I grew more, growing two this year and maybe 3 next year!
I still have a bunch of tomatoes that I haven't gotten to try yet, mostly hybrids. Grand Marshall, Skyway, Brandy Boy, Big Beef, Granadero, can't think of them all. So far the vigor and fruit set are great but we will have to see about the taste!!
Time will tell. If anyone read all this... wow! Happy gardening :)

I just beat the game I absolutely loved it! The platforming was super creative, the combat was challenging, everything about the game really fell into place. I thought it would be fun to rank all the areas - this will mostly be asking which are better and less which are worse cause the game is pretty consistently great.

1. The Depths - This area has some great design, with all the toxic waste, deadly traps, and sewage creatures, but it mainly loses some points both due to the dark sections being unnecessary, and due to the downright anxiety-inducing section where you have no map, the 1 part of the game I seriously didn’t like.
   
2. Lower City - This place is pretty vanilla, but In a good way, with a lot of the architecture, machines, and poles, and the soldiers to fight, serving as a great introduction to the game. The Jahandar was also a great introduction to boss fights. Very well-designed area, only low due to being simpler than the rest.
   
3. Upper City - The high-up feel is nailed here, with the chandelier climbing and all the enemies sniping you, the clock puzzle using the vorpal blade, and fighting Varham here was also pretty cool, especially the second time. It’s just not quite as excellent as the rest.
   
4. Sunken Harbour - loved this one - the spiky towers, booby traps everywhere, bandits and pirate ships all turned it into an unforgettable location. The platforming here was among the game’s best, but it was a bit disappointing that it lacked a boss.
   
5. Hircanian Forest - the climbable vines and emerging flowers all felt super snappy, while the forest’s critters and warriors complemented it all well. Using the bow to snipe targets always feels awesome. Kiana’s battle was a genuine highlight of the game too. No complaints here.
   
6. Tower of Silence - the grand scale of this area is unmatched, and perfectly combines with the use of the satisfying grappling string to make for an absolutely awesome ascent, up a mountain full of avalanches, icy spirits, and platforms that destroy you from under your feet made for a perfect pre-climax, even moreso thanks to the fantastic fight against King Darius.
   
7. Raging Sea - this level was short and the fight against Orod, while good, wasn’t one of my favorites - but I simply couldn’t help but adore it for the idea alone. A sea full of pirate ships, frozen in time - massive waves, burning walls, strikes of lightning, pirates doing battle, it was a magnificent setpiece, with the unfreezing by the end making it hit even harder, and it’s not just for show, as all of it was very fun and creative to play too.
   
8. Pit of Eternal Sands - alongside the sand snakes and ruins, the level really shines due to how satisfying weaving around the sand is, going through crystal walls and caterpillars, this place contains some of the most fun platforming challenges in the whole game, with the Azdaha battle being the icing on the cake.
   
9. Sacred Archives - I could never pick any other winner. The twisting bookcases, shifting walls, prison wardens, ghosts, mad mechanisms, traps, this place was creative to the max, and was made even more fun with the brilliant uses of both the clairvoyance and shadow teleportation, which while niche, when used right, manage to make the best sections of the game. And it all caps off, not with a boss, but with a segment that made my jaw drop, a set of puzzles using the shadow teleportation and time loops to make something like nothing I’ve seen before. This was a true highlight.
   

Anyway, I’m done gushing. Absolutely a brilliant game, enjoyed it greatly. What do you all think?

The truth is that game is rigged and they got the judges bribed, thats how Michael Jackson(Horus) got free from pedophile charges. The truth is that the Alpha won and we are a low level farm of data for them, they also use us a some kind of TV show. How to free ourselves from demiurge? Well banning Soros(The Beast Of Brussels) and Joe Biden(Lucifer, The Fake Prophet) and cutting his way to be reborn/resucitated/reincarnated would be great. What about reopening the webway portal in Bermuda triangle? Dont you feel something turbulent is coming, a solar flare that will return us to the middle ages... Why are those rich dudes bunkering themselves, what is the elited gettin ready for?

Morning all - Some more thoughts on CDZI here. I am looking for a $2.95 & $3.04 price target for my next targets (currently up over 20% since this call was made....and we still have more room IMO). Communicated disclaimer, nfa.
Based on my analysis, I predict that Cadiz Inc. (CDZI) will have a closing price on or around $2.95 on 5/16. This prediction is bolstered by several factors:

1. Recent Performance and Trends: CDZI has shown a recent uptick in its price, closing at $2.80 on May 15 (yesterday) with an after-hours rise to $2.87. This indicates strong buying interest and positive momentum which could carry into the following trading days.
2. Market and Sector Influence: The stock belongs to the Utilities—Regulated Water sector, which typically demonstrates stability. Recent developments within the company, such as securing a $5.2 million contract through its subsidiary, suggest operational expansion and potential revenue growth
3. Insider Confidence and Investment: There have been significant insider purchases by the CEO (she's a dawg btw), demonstrating confidence in the company's future. Such actions often signal that the company’s leadership is bullish about their own stock, potentially driving up market sentiment
4. Technical Analysis Indicators: The stock’s price movements are above its recent lows, and with a trading volume that suggests a healthy interest level from investors. While the company has had challenges reflected in its financials, the technical signals, coupled with insider activities and market operations, provide a positive outlook for a slight increase. Plus, this is a nasty reversal we are seeing here....

These elements collectively paint a picture of a stock that, despite some fundamental challenges (e.g., negative EPS and high debt levels), has potential for short-term gains driven by market sentiment, insider confidence, and recent positive news.
Next targets:
$2.95 & $3.04
Sources - 1, 2, 3

In the past enterprise development model, scale determined the business volume, and the same is true for contact centers as an industry that is both technology-intensive and labor-intensive. However, in today's economic downturn, the marginal returns of traditional business scale are diminishing, and "saving expenditures and increasing efficiency" is being regarded by more and more enterprises as the first choice for survival and development.
For this reason, contact centers have shown a stronger need for cost-saving and efficiency improvement, and lean management of efficiency and cost has become particularly important. In particular, the human resource structure that relies on manual agents needs to be optimized urgently.
Among them, there are the contradictions between low human resource utilization and the continuously expanding business capacity, as well as factors such as uneven customer service levels and difficulty in stably outputting high-quality speech skills.
In addition, the slow response speed of manual agents, low efficiency in handling customer complaints, weak customer access channels and scenarios, single service strategy, and simple functions have all become multiple obstacles that restrict the service efficiency of the contact center.
In response to this change in the industry, contact centers are gradually focusing on the balance between operational efficiency and customer experience.
Nowadays, enterprises hope to improve the efficiency and production capacity of contact centers by introducing new technologies, that is, without reducing efficiency, they can maximize manpower savings, reduce overall operating costs, and simultaneously improve customer service experience.
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Take the financial industry as an example. Compared with the previous "racing for land" and "increasing scale", this year there is more emphasis on "saving money" on human resources.
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According to Cloopen Zhongfei, the 4,000+ voice robots provided by Cloopen Contact Center AICC for a financial institution can complete the workload of 6,000 human agents, including notifications, reminders and other services with relatively fixed processes and speech techniques. All can be completed efficiently through intelligent voice robots, thereby achieving significant savings in labor costs.
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For another example, for the onboarding of new employees, with the help of intelligent auxiliary functions such as "Speech Map" and "Gold Medal Speech" of Cloopen Cloud Contact Center AICC, complex knowledge points are sorted into real-time speech recommendation that can be used for dialogue with customers. Employees can start working after passing basic training, further reducing costs and increasing efficiency for the company.

Why do basically all doctors in the west basically never prescribe TRT to people with a low testosterone level, especially young people? Testosterone levels are declining rapidly and they just don’t want to do anything about it. They come with stupid excuses like: “it will impact your fertility”. Yeah, low T will also impact your fertility. What’s worse? Stop feminizing men. In non-western countries a lot of doctors will actually prescribe it to you because they care about men. Unlike the west.

Why do basically all doctors in the west basically never prescribe TRT to people with a low testosterone level, especially young people? Testosterone levels are declining rapidly and they just don’t want to do anything about it. They come with stupid excuses like: “it will impact your fertility”. Yeah, low T will also impact your fertility. What’s worse? Stop feminizing men. In non-western countries a lot of doctors will actually prescribe it to you because they care about men. Unlike the west.

Are you a gamer? Want to take out on normies, sexhavers, and foids that infest what used to be OUR hobby? Those of us born in the 80's will remember a time when being a gamer was scorned. We were bullied, chastised, and shunned from our peer groups for enjoying video games. This would last up until the mid to late 90's when the media finally started pushing games to "dudebros" and eventually women in the early to mid 2000's. Finally in the past 10 years we've seen an infestation of shitskins and third worlders completely flooding everything. I refuse to lay down and die. I will stand and fight till the bitter end.
It's time to turn the tables and make them suffer as they made us suffer, both in life and the virtual world. (Legally and within the confines of the game, this is NOT a guide to IRL ruinate or anything of the sort.) Some of this stuff isn't allowed if you're an EU gamer.
First off, you're going to have to let go of playing video games to "win" or acquire virtual greed. You're going to need a new mindset. The mindset of a sadistic psychopath hellbent on extracting keks from anyone and everyone deemed not one of us. No more giving a fuck about your KDA, w/l ratio, or "following the rules" or the "meta" of what other players expect you to do. You are a gamer going your own way, regardless of what the groupthink expects or wants. If the game is F2P or you're a richfag or jewtuber who can get free games from devs then being banned is part of the fun, and is expected of you. If you cannot afford to buy back into games or are too technologically retarded to change your IP and spoof your hardware to get around bans in F2P games then you'll have to tread carefully.
Here's the part where I instruct you on how to fuck over these sexhavers for your own sadistic pleasure. After all they've denied us a life worth living in the real world and treat us like lepers. It's time they feel uncomfortable in OUR space. Feel free to add to any of these methods or pitch in ideas.
Foid infested "cozy" games
Shit like "Animal Crossing" or "Palia." Anything that lets you decorate and grow shit is a "cozy" game and women infest these games more than any other. It's literally a containment game of sorts to keep them out of other shit. To fuck with women in these games all you have to do is steal resources, build ugly and annoying things within the game world, be rude via emotes and text chat, and use emotes to make it look like your character is grabbing their tits or eating them out. I once did /eat to some slag girl gamer in WoW Vanilla 20 years ago and when I reverse searched my name she was bitching about it on reddit and remembered my characters exact name 4-5 years ago. She's STILL SEETHING about it 15 years later. This is what you want. Virtual RAPE. Many foids stream these types of games, and it's incredibly easy to get under their skin. Make the ugliest characters you possibly can and always stand in their camera. Stalk them in-game. Uglify the world around them. Spam emotes. The world is your oyster.
MMORPG's
World of Warcraft, or anything else really. Gank them. Corpse camp them. Dispel their world buffs. Emote spam sexually assault them. Use a high level or highly geared character to camp low level quest zones and steal mobs, resources, and kill low level players. Stream snipe them till they hide their screen with nothingness. Join their guilds and steal their resources after faking being a Chad. Get the entire guild wiped, blame it on the women healers. Play a vital role and underperform / disconnect at pivotal moments and blame a thunderstorm. Make everyone wait on your actions, but not enough to get gkicked. Openly challenge sex havers lifestyles in discord voice calls and call them out on their privileged bullshit. (Genetics, riches, went to a nice school, raised by good parents, etc.) Use every underbelly evil shithead tactic that these fuckers used towards us during our childhoods and young adult lives. Roleplay it up and lie about your IRL self to make them feel inferior. Exploit early and often, and cash out via RMT before you get banned or when you quit for some NEET bucks. If the game has a "random queue" system you can wipe endless groups or refuse to participate and hold entire game lobbies hostage.
FPS
Overwatch, Counter Strike, etc. Simply play terribly in ranked matches. Don't assist the team. Mic spam. Play vital roles like tank or healer then simply don't heal and tell them openly on the mic to beg if they want heals. Refuse to play at all if a woman is in voice chat. Verbally accost every white knight that defends her. Remember, they're most likely wagies who have to go to work tomorrow and you're most likely a NEET who has infinite free time. Remind them of this. (Even if it's not true.) In FPS with one life, openly tell the enemy team where your team mates are camping. Use aimbots, wall hacks, and other cheats to make both sides pissed off. If you're doing well gloat. If you're playing shittily, then call them a loser or a nerd. Flashbang your own team. Drop objective items as far as possible. Die with expensive guns (Auto sniper in CS triggers normies.) and make sure the enemy acquires them. Acquire or goad team mates into team killing you to 2 week ban them.
MOBA / RTS
League, Dota 2, Age of Empires, and other slop. Never go to the "meta" lane. (AD carry / support normally go bottom lane, but you're gonna always go middle, and steal your own teams jungle.) Never build the right items. Feed the enemy team, kill steal your own. Never push lanes or objectives. Ping spam. Keep text chats very "safe" to avoid bans. When a team mate dies, some ping spam and a "?" goes a long way. Never agree to surrender, unless your team is winning. Always report everyone who rages on you. Play characters that have statistically low win rates or are extra annoying. Use a lag switch to delay and hold entire lobbies hostage (RTS). Wall in your own team. Use retarded high risk low reward build orders. Be completely useless all of the time and never join team fights except after everyone's dead then schizo gaslight them that they were the ones not helping.
Survival, Crafting / Building Games
Minecraft, and shit like it. Become insanely super godlike good at the game. Learn all the metas, muscle memory, speed run tech, and master PvP. Join reddit servers and ruinate months of "cozy crafting" with max enchanted equipment and masterful grief tactics. Construct server destroying redstone machines. Completely ruin spawn and active players bases while they're offline. Destroy their VIP / pay 2 win "donation" special items. Join their discords and spam anti-vax, anti-pitbull, and black people violence webms from rekt threads on 4chan to get their servers shut down. Literally use modded hacked clients to ESP radar hack and dupe your way to victory, kicking down reddit twerps virtual sand castles and record the seethe in their discord voice chats while pretending you don't know what's going on. Abuse and exploit anything you can to the detriment of other players (Shittily coded cash shops and stores. RPG elements that are 100% broken, like a "health swap" spell that you can use on any god-geared player to swap your 1/2 heart health with their full HP then 1 shot them naked kinda shit.)
Indie slop
None of these games have any cheat protection. Cheat Engine even the most basic shit. I once played some slop card game and was able to set my opponents HP at the start of the game to 0 and win immediately. You can pretty much speed hack on all of this shit and most hack sites will have a few dedicated cheat bros that can do the wildest shit like gain access to admin panels and other destructive things. Even without cheats most basic exploits can really break these games. If a dupe method worked on one shitty survival Unreal 5 sloppa game, chances are it works on the other 7,000.
VR / Roleplay shit
Fondle titties. When the white knights run up and shout "back off" loudly point and laugh at them. Force feed slags coconut drinks. Put your arm around everyone and get really up close in their face. Make fun of their furfag outfits. Call them trannies. Take a right wing stance on everything. Use cheats to spam gore and porn everywhere. Use mod menus (Cheats) to force other players to emote or spawn giant laggy objects and explosions. Always talk shit in VOIP and spam soundboards. Be as annoying and as insufferable as possible.
Single Player Games
Okay, so this one's hard to "troll" but there's still ways to do it. You gotta share stuff in normie spaces that will offend and upset them. There was a guy that played Red Dead 2 and brutually murdered and tortured the "women have a right to vote" NPC to the point where he got banned off jewtube for it cause it pissed off so many redditors. You're gonna have to be real creative with this one. If you're a jewtuber you can intentionally kill off all the gay NPC's in Baldurs Gate 3 or something during your streams or playthroughs and watch the seethe roll in. Or make misleading and untrue guides or push a narrative you'd prefer to see and post them to normie sites to really stick it to 'em.
Please, feel free to share your ways of griefing and trolling foids and sexhavers within the confines of the video game. Since we can't be happy in real life, the least we can do is make their virtual lives closer to ours. Give them a taste of their own medicine. The only joy I have left in life is making others seethe in video games, because what the fuck else is there to do?